Anderson trailed only once at 3-2 and took total control of the game with a 12-0 run late in the second quarter. A 17-2 outburst over 3:14 of the third quarter turned the game into a rout. Anderson led 53-38 after the uprising.

Williams, ranked as high as the Eighth Region's second-best player in the pre-season, scored 18 of his points after halftime. Williams, a 6-foot-7 senior, hit 12-of-20 free throws, but hit 8-of-12 in the fourth quarter and overtime.

No matter how much the game changes, the main
object of basketball has remained the same since Dr.
Naismith was looking for a peach basket.
Make shots. It is still that simple.
Lexington Catholic made 11 shots from beyond the
three-point line to defeat host Anderson County 60-
51 in a battle of girls’ basketball teams ranked in the
pre-season Top 15 on Friday night.
“We didn’t defend the three at all,” Anderson
coach Tony Kays said.
Senior guard Bonnie Rhule got Lexington Catholic
going with a home run just 16 seconds into the
contest, then after Anderson had come back to take

Running back Nathan Cox rushed for three touchdowns and a two-point conversion as the Anderson County junior varsity football team cruised to an easy 50 – 6 victory over the Western Hills Wolverines at Hollie Warford Stadium. Cox picked up 83 yards on the ground while teammate Chris Toomey made the most out of his two carries, adding 69 yards, a touchdown and a two-point conversion.

The Anderson County boys’ cross country team pushed each other to a fourth place finish in the 12-team Boyle County Invitational, held at Danville’s Millennium Park last Thursday.

Senior Austin Dillow led Anderson, finishing seventh individually out of 113 runners with an 18:00 time over the 5K course.
Two spots and six seconds behind was junior Dylan Buser while senior Kiefer Williams placed 17th, covering the course in 18:50.

Luke Warford and Lowell Gordon were so close to advancing to this week’s state tennis tournament.

But the cruel reality of an elimination tournament is just that – elimination.

The Anderson County juniors advanced to the fourth round of last week’s Region 8 tennis tournament at Franklin County High School before falling to Matthew Stewart and Thomas Schaller of Oldham County 6-1, 6-3. Stewart and Schaller advanced to this week’s state tournament. The top four entries advance to the state.